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September carries the title of National Bourbon Heritage Month, and for a whole lot of guys in this country, that means one thing: bourbon gets the spotlight for thirty straight days. But there's a spirit sitting on the shelf next to the bourbon that deserves a second look this month, and it comes

California lawmakers just gave a nod to something a lot of guys have gotten used to since the pandemic hit: ordering a mixed drink along with dinner and taking it home in the car. The state Legislature passed AB 2663, a bill that keeps cocktails-to-go legal in California all the way through 2029. R

New Jersey just made a decision that a lot of guys who like to grab a drink with their takeout order have been waiting on. Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a bill making cocktails-to-go a permanent option in the state, and that means New Jersey is now the 33rd state in the country to lock this in for

For anyone who's ever wanted to sit down with a real bourbon expert and go through a proper tasting without hopping a flight to Kentucky, there's good news. Buffalo Trace Distillery just announced it's bringing back its traveling tasting event, called Buffalo Trace Distillery On Tour, for a second

The Macallan just closed out one of its most talked-about whisky series with a release that sounds more like a beach vacation than a Speyside distillery — and that's exactly the point. On August 4, 2026, the brand rolled out the sixth and final chapter of The Macallan Harmony Collection, wrapping u

Hibiki 12 Year Old Is Back — But You'll Need a Boarding Pass to Get One Eleven years is a long time to wait for a whisky. Long enough that the bottles sitting in the back of liquor store shelves became collector's relics. Long enough that secondary market prices climbed to absurd heights. Long eno

Paul John Whisky Plants Its Flag in Shanghai — and India's Single Malt Moment Is Only Getting Started There is a particular kind of statement being made when an Indian whisky brand commandeers prime floor space at one of Asia's most important spirits exhibitions, unfurls the largest India Pavilion

Bruichladdich Greener Still: The Final Chapter of the Still Series Closes With a Nod to the Field, Not the Cask Twenty-five years ago, a group of investors with deep roots in the wine trade did something the Scotch whisky industry wasn't expecting: they walked into a shuttered Victorian distillery

India's Crazy Cock Just Swept Five Gold Medals at the World Whisky Masters 2026 — and a Flower Nobody's Heard of Is Why Five entries. Five gold medals. No silver. No bronze. No near-misses. When South Seas Distilleries submitted its entire Crazy Cock Indian Single Malt portfolio to the World Whisk

Breckenridge Distillery Taps Colorado's Most Famous Fruit for a New Peach Whiskey There is a short window every year when the Grand Valley of western Colorado produces something genuinely singular — a peach so sweet, so fragrant, and so unmistakably regional that it has built its own cult followin